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BAGGAGE CLAIMS

ORGANIZER AND DATES
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida
September 15-December 30, 2017

TOUR
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
January 27-April 29, 2018

Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana
September 1-December 9, 2018

Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
February 2-May 13, 2019

DESCRIPTION
Baggage transports and holds our belongings, and by implication our memories. As objects, trunks, suitcases, luggage, and crates suggest the extreme mobility of our global culture. As ideas, they refer to the humanitarian and political concerns around immigration that dominate national and international debate and policy. Luggage is a powerful emblem of uncertainty and change implying fleeing, exile and homelessness. The term baggage also carries a psychological meaning: things that encumber one’s freedom, progress or development. Baggage Claims is the first exhibition to examine new work by artists across the globe, known and emerging, who are exploring this rich and timely territory.

ARTISTS
Richard Artschwager (US); Mieke Bal & Shahram Entekhabi (NL/DE); Taysir Batniji (PS); Walead Beshty (UK/US); Yoan Capote (CU); Abel Carranza (MX); Hussein Chalayan (CY/UK); André Leon Gray (US); Subodh Gupta (IN); Mohamad Hafez (SY); Dan Halter (ZW); Avery McQuaid Nelson Lawrence (US); Joel Ross (US); Kathleen Vance (US); Clarissa Tossin (BR/US); Yin Xiuzhen (CN); Andrea Zittel (US)

CATALOGUE
Published by the Orlando Museum of Art, the fully-illustrated catalogue with an essay by exhibition curators Ginger Gregg Duggan and Judith Hoos Fox, a photographic essay by Brian Ulrich, and poetry written for the publication by Vidhu Aggarwal. A bespoke zippered case in the ubiquitous red-white-blue plastic material of tote carrying, held the book. Designed by Michael Caibio.

Exhibition design by Rice+Lipka Architects